Word: commandant
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After an early goal to open the scoring by the Bulldogs (7-5, 4-2 Ivy), the Crimson (3-8, 1-4) seemed to take command of the contest. Sprong knotted the match at one late in the first quarter...
Then in the second frame, Harvard began to take command. Freshman midfielder Michael Baly beat Bulldog goalie Joe Pilch to give the Crimson a 2-1 lead...
That's how young army captain Wesley Clark urged that war be waged in his 1975 thesis on "Military Contingency Operations: The Lessons of Political-Military Coordination." Back then, he was a student at the Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Today, the four-star general is NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, based in Belgium. He's running a much different war than the one he advocated a generation ago. It is a war of contrasts, one that pits the firepower of history's most powerful military alliance against a scorched-earth campaign...
...their big reserves and refineries, but they have a whole network of smaller storage reserves," a French official says. "We thought they'd only have petrol for a month, but now it turns out they have a capacity far greater than that." And the pulverizing attacks against Serbia's command-and-control network may not be as successful as Pentagon targeteers think. After the Gulf War, the Air Force found out that Iraq's command network "had not collapsed," despite 500 strikes, and that "the system turned out to be more redundant and more able to reconstitute itself" than...
...spent $3.2 million of his fortune, hired private investigators on four continents, attracted about 100 bounty hunters by offering a $2 million reward and turned his suburban Philadelphia mansion into an international command center--all in hope of tracking down the two young daughters abducted by his ex-wife...